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What is an easy way to make up lesson plans?

A great way to make up lesson plans is to take a look at all of your course content. Go through and review it and figure how long it will take to get through it. Lay it all out, and you can figure out your lesson plans based on all of your info.

Hi Angela,
Good question because the answer depends on how much guidance you want to have for yourself. Some instructors write out very comprehensive content for each lesson other use general guidelines. The key is that the effort of developing an outline needs to have value to it. Meaning it is worthwhile. Generally an outline is sufficient with any additional notes made about equipment needed or resources that need to be secured. A lesson plan is just a reminder of what you want to accomplish that class meeting. So the detail of it is based on your need for guidance. As a working professional you know what you want your students to know at the end of the course. Lesson plans are created to help you stay on course and meet the course goal.
Gary

I am a working professional and have never made a lesson plan. How detailed do the lesson plans need to be? Are you writing out a long outline of everything you are going to cover or are you writing the subjects you will cover and will go into depth on them in class? Are they usually in outline form?

Hi Victor,
This method makes it clear for everyone what is going to occur during the learning process. How to the students react to this process? Do they like having the weekly plans?
Gary

At the institution where I work instructors must turn in a weekly lesson plan describing the daily delivery of each topic according to the course syllabus. It must include all lectures, practical sessions, quiz administration and all additional resources to be used to deliver the lesson. We find it extremely important especially when another instructor must cover for an absentee teacher. Everything has been outlined the way the instructor would like to deliver the course content. Students receive a copy of the week's lesson plan every Monday and are expected to be prepared for each day's lesson, thus avoiding any conflicts.

I agree with you on this method of creating a lesson plan. Once I know what the objective is, I can better determine a creative way of delivering the materials to the students.

Stacy:

I like your suggestion. It is like starting with the end result first, and then working backwards to fill in all the necessary steps to get to your final destination.

I am not sure there is an easy way other than to use a template if an instructor is not accustomed to creating his/her own. As for the lesson plan itself, there must be clear objectives that should start with active verbs. There should be an instructional method area, homework section, reflection section, and materials needed. The lesson plan should also include whether there is to be a follow up on the lesson.

First, decide what the objective of the lesson is, then write the lesson plan based on that objective and course materials.

HI Sonia,
No real easy way but there is a step procedure to follow. Decide what the goal is to be for the lesson. Then write objectives that will enable the students to meet the goal. Then list the activities and resources that will be needed to make the lesson successful. It is a sequential step by step procedure that you should follow leading to successful student outcomes.
Gary

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